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Posted onOctober 1, 2025January 2, 2026Career Development

On Predictions

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Humans are terrible at many things.

Terrible at predicting the future.
Terrible at understanding the progression of time.

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Posted onJune 2, 2025January 2, 2026Uncategorized

On Punctuation

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Once a sign of confident prose, the emdash now makes me twitch. Not out of distaste, but curiosity. Was that dash placed by a writer…

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Posted onJanuary 2, 2025January 2, 2026Career Development

On Growth

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“What are you thinking of doing after this role?”. It was three minutes in to my first interview with Microsoft, and the question caught me…

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Posted onJuly 1, 2024January 2, 2026Uncategorized

On Anxiety

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Anxiety is a funny thing. It can catch you at the strangest moments – even when positivity and excitement is all around. This week in…

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Posted onAugust 10, 2023January 2, 2026Uncategorized

On Reading

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You didn’t REALLY read that EULA, did you? I’ve seen many LinkedIn posts today about the update of a well known telephony platform’s EULA and…

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Posted onAugust 2, 2023August 2, 2023Career Development

Degrees of Culture

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When you hire people for a household name – you get a lot of applications: a great problem to have. As a hiring manager or…

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Posted onFebruary 16, 2021October 11, 2021Career Development

Authentic Interviews

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As a strong advocate of Early-in-Career talent and a talent ambassador in Microsoft, I decided to put together a brief explanation of how I approach interviews, to help people know how to prepare better. This builds on the Interview Tips already available on the Microsoft Careers page.

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Posted onJune 1, 2020October 11, 2021Public Speaking

Presentation Tips for Engineers

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Recently I’ve had many conversations with colleagues about how to be more effective when presenting technical content. There’s no magic, but here are a few…

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Posted onJanuary 26, 2016October 11, 2021AWS

CloudFront Edge to Origin Auth

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CloudFront, the CDN from Amazon Web Services, has long supported authenticating between the CDN’s edge and S3 using Origin Access Identity, allowing you to lock…

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Posted onJanuary 23, 2016AWS

Preventing hotlinking using CloudFront WAF and Referer Checking

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This post has now been transferred to the AWS blog. The original motivation for this post was this post from Stack Overflow.

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